Kazziga
Corporal
- Joined
- Mar 22, 2011
- Location
- Gliwice, Poland
Almost 10 year ago I built a little paper model of a Union mortar boat. The model was a free download from "Paper Shipwright": http://www.papershipwright.co.uk/mortar-barge-no-10/
As it often happens, we do things first and think about them later and such was the case with my model.
Before I built it, I had seen illustrations and photos of similar craft and while the shape of the shield (casemate sounds too serious here, at least for me) was ok, the shape of the hull was not. Since I wanted to build the kit, I didn't care much about it then.
Check these illustrations and photos:
http://civilwarnavy150.blogspot.com/2012/04/unfavorable-mortar-boats.html
http://civilwarhorror.blogspot.com/2013/06/civil-war-photo-friday-union-mortar-boat.html
http://www.valdressamband.org/images/civilwar/C4.jpg
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/december/ft-pickens-bombardment.htm (bottom image)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whsimages/6209003302/ (hull under construction)
http://civilwardailygazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/jan21mortarboat1.jpg
As you can see, the photos show the hull form as rectangular, while the model(s) often have triangular ends:
http://www.flagshipmodels.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7&products_id=119
I hope someone here is interested in these boats and will be able to shed some light on the subject.
As it often happens, we do things first and think about them later and such was the case with my model.
Before I built it, I had seen illustrations and photos of similar craft and while the shape of the shield (casemate sounds too serious here, at least for me) was ok, the shape of the hull was not. Since I wanted to build the kit, I didn't care much about it then.
Check these illustrations and photos:
http://civilwarnavy150.blogspot.com/2012/04/unfavorable-mortar-boats.html
http://civilwarhorror.blogspot.com/2013/06/civil-war-photo-friday-union-mortar-boat.html
http://www.valdressamband.org/images/civilwar/C4.jpg
http://www.sonofthesouth.net/leefoundation/civil-war/1861/december/ft-pickens-bombardment.htm (bottom image)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/whsimages/6209003302/ (hull under construction)
http://civilwardailygazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/jan21mortarboat1.jpg
As you can see, the photos show the hull form as rectangular, while the model(s) often have triangular ends:
http://www.flagshipmodels.com/zencart/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=7&products_id=119
I hope someone here is interested in these boats and will be able to shed some light on the subject.